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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
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Subject: Re: Copy preserving access times
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Date: 28 Sep 90 21:14:14 GMT
References: <60349@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Sep27.205924.28311@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
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In a recent article bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly) writes:

>In article <60349@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler) writes:
>>Has anyone got a tool that'll recursively copy a directory preserving
>>owners, modes, modification and access times, and copy symlinks, not
>>what they point to?

>I don't know about symlinks, but cpio will handle everthing else
>you ask about.

Of all the systems I've seen, all the ones that had symbolic links
also had a cpio command that could handle them in the way being asked
for.

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